Physical description; 260 pages ; 20 cm. Subjects; Swofford, Anthony. United States. Marine Corps - Biography.

Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War: A Soldier's Story of Modern War

Biographies & Memoirs

ANTHONY SWOFFORD

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Scribner

Anthony Swofford's Jarhead is the first Gulf War memoir by a frontline infantry marine, and it is a searing, unforgettable narrative. When the marines -- or "jarheads," as they call themselves -- were sent in 1990 to Saudi Arabia to fight the Iraqis, Swofford was there, with a hundred-pound pack on his shoulders and a sniper's rifle in his hands. It was one misery upon another. He lived in sand for six months, his girlfriend back home betrayed him for a scrawny hotel clerk, he was punished by boredom and fear, he considered suicide, he pulled a gun on one of his fellow marines, and he was shot at by both Iraqis and Americans. At the end of the war, Swofford hiked for miles through a landscape of incinerated Iraqi soldiers and later was nearly killed in a booby-trapped Iraqi bunker. Swofford weaves this experience of war with vivid accounts of boot camp (which included physical abuse by his drill instructor), reflections on the mythos of the marines, and remembrances of battles with lovers and family. As engagement with the Iraqis draws closer, he is forced to consider what it is to be an American, a soldier, a son of a soldier, and a man. Unlike the real-time print and television coverage of the Gulf War, which was highly scripted by the Pentagon, Swofford's account subverts the conventional wisdom that U.S. military interventions are now merely surgical insertions of superior forces that result in few American casualties. Jarhead insists we remember the Americans who are in fact wounded or killed, the fields of smoking enemy corpses left behind, and the continuing difficulty that American soldiers have reentering civilian life. A harrowing yet inspiring portrait of a tormented consciousness struggling for inner peace, Jarhead will elbow for room on that short shelf of American war classics that includes Philip Caputo's A Rumor of War and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, and be admired not only for the raw beauty of its prose but also for the depth of its pained heart.

Jarhead.: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War.

In his New York Times bestselling chronicle of military life, Anthony Swofford weaves his experiences in war with vivid accounts of boot camp, reflections on the marines, and remembrances of battles with lovers and family. When the U.S. Marines—or “jarheads”—were sent to Saudi Arabia in 1990 for the Gulf War, Anthony Swofford was there. He lived in sand for six months; he was punished by boredom and fear; he considered suicide, pulled a gun on a fellow marine, and was targeted by both enemy and friendly fire. As engagement with the Iraqis drew near, he was forced to consider what it means to be an American, a soldier, a son of a soldier, and a man.

Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

A Marines chronicle of the Gulf War and other battles: "Swofford's Jarhead is not just the finest memoir to emerge from Operation Desert Storm but one of the most honest and compelling accounts of men at arms in a generation...", Scott Anderson, war journalist.

Jarhead: a Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

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Swofford erz&auml,hlt von seiner Zeit als Scharfsch&uuml,tze der US-Marines an vorderster Front 1990/91 in Saudi-Arabien, Kuwait und Irak. Er schildert das Grauen des Krieges, die Allgegenwart des T&ouml,tens und Get&ouml,tetwerdens und von der Verheerung, die der Krieg in den Seelen aller Beteiligter anrichtet.

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